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AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Recommendation Sets and Choice Queries: There Is No Exploration/Exploitation Tradeoff!
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 18 days ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Effectiveness of Query Types and Policies for Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions
Combinatorial auctions, where agents can bid on bundles of items (resources, tasks, etc.), are desirable because the agents can express complementarity and substitutability among ...
Benoît Hudson, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 5 days ago
Assessing regret-based preference elicitation with the UTPREF recommendation system
Product recommendation and decision support systems must generally develop a model of user preferences by querying or otherwise interacting with a user. Recent approaches to elici...
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
135views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 24 days ago
Applying learning algorithms to preference elicitation
We consider the parallels between the preference elicitation problem in combinatorial auctions and the problem of learning an unknown function from learning theory. We show that l...
Sébastien Lahaie, David C. Parkes